Re: Lack of basic --log-level understanding.

[3bird]

Alo,

I should've there looked first. Guess I lack initiative as well as '--log-level' knowledge huh ? :)

It appears that the numerics descend when the priority ascends. Making debug 7, info 6, notice 5 etcetera. As warning is the one just before priority "emerg" it is '--log-level' 1, as "emerg" is the last priority and '--log-level' 0.

This explains everything, thank you.

Brian wrote:

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Here is a great place to read all about how --log-level works and about iptables in general….

 

http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of 3bird
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 9:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Lack of basic --log-level understanding.

 

Hello,

I'm using iptables 1.2.3 and I'm confused with the way '--log-level' works. According to the iptables(8) man it can take numeric arguments. I assume these numeric arguments are 1 to 8 (c.q debug to emerg) as specified in the syslog.conf man:

The  priority  is  one  of the following keywords, in ascending order: debug, info, notice, warning, warn (same as warning), err, error (same as err), crit, alert, emerg, panic (same as emerg).  The keywords error, warn and panic are deprecated and should not be used anymore. The  priority  defines the severity of the message

I conclude from this, emphasizing the ascending order note, that "debug" should be '--log-level 1', "info" should be '--log-level 2' etcetera. This makes "warning" '--log-level 7'. However, after experimenting a bit with the --log-level argument in my iptables rules I come to the conclusion that when I specify '--log-level 1' it logs to syslog as priority "warning", and not as priority "debug" as I thought it would and as it should according to my previous interpretation of both man pages.

Likely it's me who's got it all wrong, or it's the numeric argument to iptables' '--log-level' that differs from the order in which the priorities are mentioned in the syslog.conf(5) man.

I'd greatly appreciate an explanation.

Yours sincerly;
3b.